diff --git a/eng/Publishing.props b/eng/Publishing.props
index 920e79cbbd2f7c..8b796225f8274b 100644
--- a/eng/Publishing.props
+++ b/eng/Publishing.props
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <Project>
-  <!-- TODO: Consolidate the Publishing.props files into here. -->
+
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <PublishingVersion>3</PublishingVersion>
+    <ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets>true</ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets>
   </PropertyGroup>
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+
+</Project>
diff --git a/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj b/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj
index a4476a5d1e9d18..2de1d3b43d3a20 100644
--- a/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj
+++ b/src/installer/prepare-artifacts.proj
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <Import Project="../tools/Sign.props" Sdk="Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk" />
 
+  <Import Project="$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)Publishing.props" Condition="Exists('$(RepositoryEngineeringDir)Publishing.props')" />
+
   <UsingTask TaskName="GenerateChecksums" AssemblyFile="$(InstallerTasksAssemblyPath)" />
 
   <PropertyGroup>
@@ -56,6 +58,16 @@
     <ManifestBuildData Include="AzureDevOpsBranch=$(BUILD_SOURCEBRANCH)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
+  <!-- 
+    Set metadata for assets that are not marked as NonShipping. 
+    This is used to determine if the asset should be shipped as part of .NET release.
+  -->
+  <ItemDefinitionGroup>
+    <ItemsToPush>
+      <ManifestArtifactData Condition="'$(ProducesDotNetReleaseShippingAssets)' == 'true'">DotNetReleaseShipping=true</ManifestArtifactData>
+    </ItemsToPush>
+  </ItemDefinitionGroup>
+
   <!--
     Take assets from the build jobs, prepare them for publishing (signing, arrangement) then upload
     them to the pipeline for Arcade and custom steps to publish.